We Strike, Therefore We Are? A Twitter Analysis of Feminist Identity in the Context of #DayWithoutAWoman

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We Strike, Therefore We Are? A Twitter Analysis of Feminist Identity in the Context of #DayWithoutAWoman. / Lommel, Lillan; Schreier, Margrit; Fruchtmann, Jakob.
in: FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, Jahrgang 20, Nr. 2, 16, 25.05.2019.

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title = "We Strike, Therefore We Are?: A Twitter Analysis of Feminist Identity in the Context of #DayWithoutAWoman",
abstract = "In this article, we explore the collective identity of feminist activists as expressed on Twitter in the context of {"}Day Without A Woman.{"} We conceptualize collective feminist identity by drawing upon literature on identity, feminism, and social movements. We expected to find a politically-defined group boundary around supporters of {"}Day Without A Woman.{"} Using the online tool Netlytic, we collected tweets posted from accounts in Washington D.C., New York City, and Los Angeles. In a preliminary step, we performed a word count analysis and coded frequent words within the collected tweets into categories of meaning. Based on these categories, we drew a sub-sample of tweets, which we scrutinized in-depth using discourse analysis. Through this qualitative analysis, we show that the group boundary of the supporters of {"}Day Without A Woman{"} is defined by the common denominator of their negative relation to Donald TRUMP. While the supporters stress the relevance of feminist claims, barriers to identifying as a feminist seem to persist, as reflected in those whom we call {"}flexi-feminists.{"} The boundary between supporters and non-supporters of {"}Day Without A Woman{"} hence seems to broaden from a line to a space which can be occupied without complete group entry. In this space and beyond, supporters express feminist identity through an {"}us{"} versus {"}him{"} logic.",
keywords = "Management studies, collective identity, contemporary feminism, Social Movement, Twitter analysis, critical discourse analysis, U.S. presidential elections, kollektive Identit{\"a}t, Feminismus, soziale Bewegungen, Twitter-Analyse, kritische Diskursanalyse, U.S. presidential elections",
author = "Lillan Lommel and Margrit Schreier and Jakob Fruchtmann",
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